“Hellboy: the Crooked Man” used “a lot of lube” for the leather suit scene

• “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” is the latest reboot of the character.
• The film shows a horrifying moment when a raccoon crawls inside a human’s bare skin.
• Director Brian Taylor told Business Insider that the scene needed “a lot of rubber and a lot of lube.”

“Hellboy: The Crooked Man” faithfully adapts the comic of the same name by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben, complete with a disgusting leather suit scene.

Director Brian Taylor told Business Insider that he used “a lot of rubber and a lot of lube” to get it right.

The film stars Jack Kesy as Hellboy, who investigates a witch community in the Appalachian Mountains in 1959 when he stumbles across a ghostly entity called the Crooked Man (Martin Bassindale).

This is Millennium Media’s second time dancing with Hellboy, following 2019’s “Hellboy” starring David Harbour. But it was a critical flop and only made $55 million against a $50 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo.

The reboot’s most memorable scene is ripped right from the pages of the original story, as Hellboy stumbles upon the complete, bare skin of a human body. It belongs to a young witch named Cora Fisher (Hannah Margetson), and shortly after Hellboy finds her, a raccoon sneaks through a window and climbs inside the hide.

It is revealed that Fisher used her powers to transform into a raccoon and is then forced to undergo a painful bone grafting process to regain her body.

Speaking to BI ahead of the film’s release, director Brian Taylor explained that the raccoon is the only CGI element in the sequence – which was released online in full in August.

“So obviously it’s not a real raccoon, but except for the raccoon, there’s no CG enhancement. Because when you read it in the comic book, it’s one of those things where it’s in the script and I know it’s going to happen. be a great moment… But you read it and you’re like, ‘Okay, this is going to be a really bad CG scene.'” he explained.

“Or we can try to build it so that it becomes, ‘Let’s just do this Clive Barker style.’ Let’s make it with a lot of rubber, a lot of lube and some really great performers,” Taylor continued, referring to films like “Hellraiser” and “Nightbreed.”

“Even I, after going through this editing a thousand times, picture by picture, can’t see the transfer. I can’t see the transfer where it turns from a physical effect to an actor. It is so perfect and there is no CG. . It’s just performance and a lot of latex,” he added.

The director also praised Margetson, saying, “At some point, the prosthetic and the rubber and the lube and everything becomes a real person, who is Hannah Margetson, who is an incredible actor and just an out-of-this-world physical performer. .”

The reliance on practical effects is a far cry from 2019’s “Hellboy,” which used heavy CGI for its over-the-top action scenes.

Instead, “Hellboy: The Crooked Man” takes a welcome, back-to-basics approach and leans closer to the horror genre than action and fantasy.

Icon Film Distribution presents ‘Hellboy: The Crooked Man’ in UK cinemas from September 27.